Instead of telling us what they would do in the White House to improve the lives of Americans, the McCain-Palin dynamic duo spent another day (thankfully there are only six days left of this neverending nightmare) telling Americans what a dangerous and bad person Barack Obama is because in 2003 he attended a party for Columbia professor. Yes, those liberal elites love college professors! They can’t be from real America! Palin claims the professor is a former spokesman for the PLO, not realizing the irony of running for vice president with a man that advocated for policies which have significantly strengthened Iraq’s ties with Iran, while also admitting that Iran is certainly a more dangerous threat to America than the Palestinians. Thinking logically about issues has never been a character trait of this ticket.
Of course, most Americans are preoccupied with the fact that the stock market dropped again today, housing prices continue to slump, consumer confidence is at record lows and we want a government that will do something about this, not be obsessed with who Barack Obama met a couple times years ago. Besides, this “news” is five years old. If Obama’s character is such an issue, why did they wait so long to bring this up?
John McCain and Sarah Palin could care less about what Americans need. Instead, they care about irrelevent things that Barack Obama did years ago and dividing Americans into us and them. It’s really a sad display of desperation and a book that keeps writing itself – “How Not To Run A Presidential Campaign.”
Did you hear the one about Obama being a Muslim? But, I thought he attended a church for years that employed an anti-American reverend. Since when do Muslims have reverends? The Republican ticket can’t even keep their nonsense straight anymore.
When you’ve lived through as many administrations as your elders, you learn that what a candidate tells you what they will do if elected is but airy persiflage. That’s fodder for Steve Levine’s disenfranchised electorate. History eventually speaks to all of that.
To date, Obama has yet to submit himself to the one on one scrunity of capable journalists in the same fashion as most of the people he’s run against. It’s a sensible and clever approach to campaigning and one which thinking people of both persuasions can appreciate.
1. Your preoccupation with my suggestion to bar ignorant, uninformed citizens from voting is now bordering on an obsession. I hope it doesn’t affect your health — or divert your attention from REALLY IMPORTANT matters.
2. To imply that Obama has dodged “journalistic scrutiny” is to ignore the fact that he’s been examined and scrutinized by the public for the past TWO YEARS, and along the way, has been the subject of these one-on-one interviews:
Meet The Press:
5/4/08, with Russert
7/27/08, with Brokaw
Face The Nation
12/23/07
9/28/08
ABC Nightly News
7/23/08
10/8/08
10/29/08
Fox (O’Reilly)
9/4/08
Countdown, with Keith Olbermann
3/14/08
Plus appearances on Hannity & Colmes, Anderson Cooper (CNN) and the countless debates during the Primaries and now the General Election.
I’d say he’s submitted himself to the scrutiny of journalists AND the public.
He couldn’t have come this far if he had not.
Do not consider it an obsession nor a matter deleteriouis to my health. It serves to remind me that things are seldom what they seem in life. However, your historical record detailing Obama’s ‘one-on-one’s might be pathognomonic of an obsession of your own. Not withstanding your conclusions, my comments on journalistic scrunity comes directly from members of the camp whose statistics you are keeping and who still perceive him as an enigma whose position on many keys issues important to a sitting president are yet undefined. Brokaw,in that you cite him, for example, observed this very evening, that Obama’s ‘world view’ is yet unknown. These, and others like it, with respect to your candidate, are indeed, VERY IMPORTANT MATTERS to me.
On your obsession with denying the unworthy in your opinion the right to vote I would defend their right as strongly as I would that of anyone who has chosen their candidate strictly on the basis of skin tone, a judgement as mindless and uninformed as the one you cited. I do not expect you to agree with this comparison but fortunately, our freedom to express our opinions yet remains free your biased judgement.
Eight years ago, since they had either no information or the wrong information, these issue-ignorant yahoos voted for the candidate they’d like to have a beer with.
Four years ago, despite compelling evidence that they’d made a mistake, they chose that same candidate again.
The result has been eight years of lies, incompetence and criminal behavior that has shredded our Constitution, ravaged our economy, devastated our reputation.
Because the next president will likely appoint two or three Justices to the Supreme Court, those same know-nothing voters will not only determine our country’s future for the next four or eight years, but for a generation or more.
That’s enough of a reason to bar them from the voting booth.
You need to make your view known to Mr. Obama. It would be interesting to be present at any commentary,if any, he might deign to offer.
Pity that you are doomed to tag along for the ride on what ever journey these so-called know-nothing voters deem fit to take you. Those self-same incompetents supporting HIM will be responsible for seeing to it that he prevails, it he be thus fortunate.
Sans same, the die would be most irrevocably cast against you.